The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1887-07-27
NEW LINES OF WORK.
WHY WOMEN WOULD MAKE GOOD
APOTHECAKIES
Pharmacy within the sphere Of Womnn's
Csefulncss--A Successful New Orleans
Female Druggist.

tFrom the Philadelphia Rccord)
The time is past for asking the uuos-
ton whether women ought to work
they do work. There is no longer any
need to inquire what they are able TO do.
They arc employed in almost every call
ing. With their assistance our little
ones learn Of tho common things Of life
in the Kindergarten; our older children
meet them rs superintendent Of schools
and professors in colleges; their quick
fingers have been rapidly trained in the
kindred occupations of shorthand and
typo-writiug; rs florists many Of them
arc succeeding, and Cwhat employment
could be moro tittipgD as professional
nurses they find exceeding favor in the
slck-room; as authors they arc winning
lalnC and fortune; III painting and in
duStrlal de- iGnlng they are making rapid
progress; as physicians they have fairly
won acknowledgement of their useful
ness; as lawyers they have shown uu-
iookcd'for ability; as preachers, readers
ana lecturers they have not lacked ap.
plausc, and III almost every wagc-Cari-
ing capacity they have undcrtnkGn they
have proved t'lat if they viii they make
an honorahlc living
NEGLECTED LINES or WORK.
But, Notwithstanding the push ana
enterprise which distinguish the sex in
logcing their way into great diversity
Of cmploymcnts, the fuct remains that
some calllugs Which are cmincut,y suited
to woman are sadly neglected by them.
That of the druggist, acknow lodged To-
bc among tue best paying occupations,
finds comparatively lew women in it's
ranks. Ii | mistake not Mrs. Rudolph,
OF New Orleans, was the first woman TO
own and conduct dug store. Her
husband WAS Il druggist, and when he
dlco, about nlnc years ago, leaving hCr
Two babies and brave heart as her sole
heritage, she determined to ill his place
10 this end she applied for pharmu-
ccutlcaI course Mt thc Tulane Medical
College, which was denied her. S3hc
then began Il system OF private lessons
under the Professor OF Pharmacy, and
IN TWO years graduated with credit and
received Tn" hearty endorsement Of the
Examining Board. Then came the
struggle with an overwhelming popular
prejudice against allowing woman TO
cole out powders and pills, which might,
after all, have wrecked the success Of
her enterprise but for some Just and rca-
sonng physicians who held out helping
hands to her and brought her safely into
the haven OF prosperity. Now she is
one OF the most prosperous druggists in
New Orleans.
gWoAIEN At THE PRESCRIPTION DESK.
In spite OF struggles, Mrs. Rudolph is
enthusiastic on the subject, and strongly
urges young " men to the study ana
practice OF pharmacy. She says that any
young woman VINO has the ground work
OF good education and is imbucd with
determination and honesty OF purpose
need 30 fear Of failure. And to prove
the truth OF her words, several women
III the business arc meeting with marked
success. Miss Lucy King, of Chatta-
noo8a, Is nOtcG as one OF the ablcst rep
SChtdtiVCS Ol her profession. She is the
managing CdItrcss of the Drugman, a
paper endorsed and adopted by the State
Pharmaceutical Conventions of Georgia
ana Louisiana rs their representative
Journal. The quality which would seem
to make the genius OF woman cmincntly
valuable at the prescription desk is the
rare caution Which most Of them cXcr-
clso when once warned OF possible dan
ger and when 50 iufalliblc an Authority
aa Huxley says the study of chemistry
~ peculiarly adapted to the feminine
mind, the point of their fitness as drug
glsts clerks passes out Of the line of dis.
putatlOn. The facilities for prosecuting
their studies nowadays in that direction
is another ihduccmcnt for them 10 more
widely adopt the calling.
WOMEN PHYSICIANS.
The study OF medicine and its twin
science, pharmacy, by women is no new
thing In thc first medical school cs-
tabllshcd during the first Christian era
women taught side by side with men.
The school OF Salcrnum contained i'm its
faculty no names more respectable for
scientific zeal and attainmcnts than those
OF the three female professors -Trotula,
Kchecca and Abclla---who were ready to
grapple the toughest subject in physi-
ology and medicine. Trotula wrote
very learned dissertation which added
much to hor fame, and which was so
great for profound scholarship that
when the celebrated disputant, Rudolph
Mala Corona, went to that seat of learn
ing TO try conclusions III science with its
professors she alone was considered a
worthy antagonist. Abella was a poet
physician, and inditcd treatise on
"Black Bile In Latin verse. The taste
OF the learned Rcbecca inclined in the
same direction, and her works are found
III the older Libraries. The mothers III
medicine, however, left no successors
worthy of their fame, and their example
has not had many imitators in the cen
turics since they flourishcd. In later
years women have again turned their
attention to the profession of medicine,
which, however on account OF it's ardu
ons duties requires remarkably robust
physique and strong nerves, and while
their tact and gentleness may be help
to them, it is au open questiod whether
their superabundant sympathy is not
drawback But in the capacity of drug
gists no questions can arise as to physi-
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